Web Transaction Monitor – an Affordable Tool for E-Commerce Sites and Web Applications Monitoring

June 14, 2011 - PRLog -- Novosibirsk, Russia, June 8, 2011 -- Web Transaction Monitor is designed for end-to-end monitoring of web applications and e-commerce sites such as internet shops. The tool simulates the steps of real user activity so it is able to monitor what’s up with the real user experience of an online shop or enterprise web application. The tool notifies interested persons (by email, SMS, instant messenger) if performance becomes unacceptable or downtime occurs.

Web application uptime and performance monitoring is an essential task for each business that relies on web applications in its everyday activity. For internet companies web site performance plays a vital role in business success. Poor page load time leads to a site visitor’s inadequate experience, which means loss of sales for an e-commerce site or a waste of resources for corporate productivity web applications. Even a small outage can lead to substantial losses so businesses should do their best to avoid outages or to minimize negative impacts by a timely reaction to problems.

Web Transaction Monitor (WTM) provides web site owners and webmasters with a tool to monitor web application performance and uptime. An aspect that sets WTM apart from most of traditional web monitoring tools is the real time monitoring of whole transactions such as the entire checkout process for an e-commerce site, user login and search function usage for a productivity web application instead of just monitoring uptime and page load time.

WTM eliminates the occurrence of false uptime results. The webmaster can be sure that a web application functions properly from the end-user perspective when it is monitored by Web Transaction Monitor because each poll reiterates the steps of an actual web site visitor in the browser. Traditional web site monitoring tools often can’t do enough to detect malfunctions in database or application servers.

A WTM user need not be an expert in monitoring and web applications to create a meaningful web transaction monitor. The browser-based recorder allows creating a monitor by simply navigating through the web pages which use the functionality that should be monitored. The Replay function provides a way to visually check that web transaction recording goes flawlessly and the resulting monitor will work correctly. This function is extremely helpful when a performance or availability problem occurs in a web application; replaying the same request sequence helps to understand which steps are OK and which are not as well as validating the fixes made to restore operability.

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